Your Browsing History
James B.
Joined on 04/23/05
0
0
product reviews
- 7
Lenovo T430 upgrade
G.SKILL 4GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3L 1600 (PC3L 12800) Laptop Memory Model F3-1600C11S-4GSL
Pros: Inexpensive.
Cons: No idea it was DDR3L (1.35v) until it arrived. Why is this not in title?
Overall Review: Worked great to upgrade my corporate T430 laptop from 4GB to 8. Even coexisted with regular DDR3 RAM onboard with no problem.
1/24/2014See more detail
Cheap
DELL Desktop Computer OptiPlex GX390 Intel Core i5-2400 8GB DDR3 320GB HDD Intel HD Graphics 2000 Windows 10 Pro Multi-Language, English / Spanish
Pros: Inexpensive for an i5 and 8 GB. Packed well. Arrived slightly later (1/2 day) than tracking indicated but no big deal.
Cons: Super cheap keyboard and mouse is disappointing. Unit looks okay but has giant sticker applied to the sides (hiding scratches I guess) and some dings on the faceplate. I guess I didn't expect the case to have seen such rough handling.
Overall Review: I wish they'd have sprung an extra $10 for a Dell keyboard and mouse, I didn't notice they were off-brands in the photo.
6/19/2016See more detail
Signal strength worse than G
D-Link Xtreme-N Duo Wireless Bridge/Access Point (DAP-1522) Wireless N300, Dual-Band, Fast Ethernet
Pros: Decent configuration program
Cons: Awful reception. In the same location as my G router it performs much worse. Spotty reception even 50 ft away at my house. Consistently dropped connections in B/G/N mode. Switched to G/N only mode and the drops went away but the reception still stinks. Now I have to buy another.
6/28/2012See more detail
Two bad in a row
Intel BOXDQ57TM LGA 1156 Intel Q57 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
Pros: None
Cons: This is the second board of the same model that has arrived DOA. Intel support cannot even begin to diagnose it because there are no beeps and only two pointless LEDs. Same CPU, RAM and power work elsewhere.
8/16/2011See more detail
Poor setup and requires reboots...
LINKSYS E3000 Wireless Router simultaneous Dual Band Gigabit 802.11a/b/g/n 2.4GHz / 5GHz up to 300Mbps with USB Built-in UPnP AV Media Server
Pros: Great feature set, fast, dual band
Cons: Web-based setup cannot turn off guest network. Buggy firmware requires reboot every 2-3 days.
Overall Review: The only way to turn off the guest network is to run the PC software setup, you can't do it in the normal web-based setup. But doing that resets all the settings I have already made. Grrrrrr.
6/4/2010See more detail
Defective, apparently common problem
EVGA 121-BL-E756-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 Micro ATX SLI Micro Intel Motherboard
Pros: Micro ATX for an i7 CPU
Cons: Defective. Debug codes not in manual or website. EVGA RMA options started at like $30 for slowest shipping - pretty sad.
Overall Review: Flashed F3, Fb, F6, 6B, then F3, F6, F3, etc. Tech support immediately knew what codes I was seeing, so this is not a rare issue. They seemed to think it was a memory controller and had me reseat the CPU several times and try moving the memory around, but no luck.
8/4/2009See more detail